Dr. Harry Costin

Associate Professor at the American Graduate School of Business and Economics

Fields of expertise

• Strategy

• International Business

• Innovation: Development of New Products and Services

• Strategy in Higher Education

Education

• B.B.A, Major in International Business, School of Business Administration, University of Miami, USA

• Master of Business Administration, Graduate School of Management, Boston University, USA

• Master of International Relations, Boston University, USA

• Master of Education, concentration in Administration, Planning and Social Policy (APSP), Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA

• Doctor of Business Administration, concentration in Strategy, Department of Strategy and Policy, Graduate School of Management, Boston University, USA

Other current affiliations

• Adjunct Faculty, Boston University, School of Management, Department of Strategy and Policy, Metropolitan College, Department of Administrative Sciences

• Adjunct Faculty, Reims Management School, Reims, France

• Adjunct Faculty, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württenberg, Karlsruhe, Germany

Previous experience

• Associate Professor of International Business, American University of Paris, France

• Professor of Strategy and International Business, Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

• Development and presentation of executive development programs in various countries. Sponsoring organizations include: The Harvard Institute for International Development, The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, The Catholic University (La Paz, Bolivia), The Guatemalan Association of Businessmen

• Visiting Director of Programmes and Research, EuroArab Management School, Granada, Spain

• Full-time visiting lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Department of Management and Human Ressources

• Consulting, Incyde, Madrid, Spain, consultant to approximately 250 small- and medium- sized businesses in Spain

• Consulting, The Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University: introduction of Total Quality Management in the education reform with the Ministry of Education

Selected publications

Books

• Strategies for Quality Improvement, ed., 2^nd edition. Harcourt Brace: Dryden Press. Fort Worth, TX:1999.

• Economic Reform in Latin America, ed., Harcourt Brace: Dryden Press. Fort Worth, TX:1998.

• Strategy and Strategic Planning, ed., Harcourt Brace: Dryden Press. Fort Worth, TX:1998

• Training and Management Development: a TQM approach, ed., Harcourt Brace: Dryden Press. Fort Worth, TX:1996.

• The Manager in the World Economy: The European Union, ed., Harcourt Brace: Dryden Press. Fort Worth, TX:1996.

• Readings in Total Quality Management, ed., Harcourt Brace: Dryden Press. Fort Worth, TX:1994.

• ISO 9000 and Strategies to Compete in The Single European Market, ed., GOAL/QPC, Methuen, MA:1993.

Articles, Chapters, etc.

• “Quality in Business Education as Measured by Accreditation and Ranking Systems.” (with Diane Hamilton). Paper published in the special issue “Quality Assurance in Education Management” of the Journal of International Management in Education, Vol. 3, Nos.3/4, 2009. An early version of the paper was presented at the Academy of Management Conference at Chicago, August 7-11, 2009.

• “China, an Economic Superpower: Out of Many One?” Journal of Transnational Management (Vol. 13, N. 2, 2008).

• “The Internationalization of MBA Programs: 1990-2000.” Paper presented at the Academy of International Business Conference at Indianapolis, June 2007.

• “Evaluating Gender Parity in Graduate Business Schools: 1990-2000.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management Conference at Atlanta, August 2006.

• “Pôles de competitivité dans le secteur du tourisme : Du rôle de l’Etat et des collectivités territoriales,” with Guillaume Biot-Pacquerot.Paper presented at the Champlain Conference on Tourism, co-sponsored by UQAM, the University of Angers, and ESC La Rochelle, May 4-5, 2006.

• “Third World Multinationals Revisited,” (with Juan Carlos Herken).  Journal of Transnational Management (Vol. 11, N. 4, 2006).

• “The Empire Strikes Back: the Re-emergence of China as an Economic and Political Superpower.” Paper presented at the Conference: Towards a new generation in Global Governance? at the University of Ghent, November 14-15, 2005.

• “The Risks of Globalization: the Case of Chinese Textile Exports.” Journal of Law Studies of the University of Jaen (December, 2006). Previously presented at the conference “Globalisation and the Crisis of the State” at the University of Jaen (May 20-21 2005).

Blog

http://hcostin.wordpress.com/